California man arrested near Canadian border on terror charges - CNN The federal Department of Justice says that 20-year-old Stockton college student Nicholas Teausant was arrested in Blaine, Washington and has been charged with "attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization." It's alleged that Teausant "traveled to the Canadian border with the intent of continuing on to Syria to join the terrorist organization known as al Qaeda in Iraq."

24 Can't Settle Score: Latino Vets See Racism Despite Medals - NBC News Twenty-four veterans, all but three of them now dead, are being awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in combat decades after their service; the majority of them are Latino. Some Latino vets perceive systemic discrimination in the military: “'We’re kind of an afterthought, like everyone else had to get theirs first,' said Ruben Treviso, 67, a retired Army sergeant who served in Vietnam during 1971 and 1972."

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